Jen has published in a range of areas from policing to crime history. She has a monograph due in 2025 titled 'Temporary Courts in Times of Crisis: Pop Up Justice and the Nightingale Courts’ (Routledge) and has also published with a wider focus on improving the criminal justice system, from police training reform to reducing short custodial sentences through the expanded use of treatment requirements. She has also had evidence published for a parliamentary select committee reviewing the Criminal Justice Bill 2023.
Jen has been Principal Investigator for several funded projects and been involved in several other evaluations for various initiatives and interventions (including knife crime projects). She was on the editorial board for a postgraduate journal when completing her PhD and was previously on the Executive Board and part of the steering committee for SEARCH (Socio-Economic and Applied Research for Change).
She has been the course leader for MSc in Criminal Justice and Professional Doctorate in Criminal Justice as well as the PEQF (DHEP & PCDA) course leader with Lancashire Constabulary. Previous roles include programme leader for a degree in Criminal Justice (through the University of Chester), and lecturer in Criminology and programme leader for Applied Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University.
She was part of the organising committee for the British Society of Criminology conference held here in 2023 and has been an expert advisor to true crime television programmes.
